Rosemary Sutcliff’s fourth choice of music on BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs in 1983 was the song “We’ll gather lilacs in the spring (play here)” sung by Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth.
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Trawling the internet, researching libraries and databases, and occasionally from material sent to me, I discover things I did not know much about, or indeed at all! There can be more than one Discovery of the Day.
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio Choice Three 1983
Rosemary Sutcliff chose for her third record on Desert Island Discs with Roy Plomley in 1983 “L’Apres-midi d’une Faune” by Claude Debussy, played by The Royal Philharmonic conducted by Thomas Beecham.
Rosemary Sutcliff BBC Radio Desert Island Discs Choice Two
Record Two chosen by Rosemary Sutcliff on the still-running Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 (then the Home Service) was the hymn: “Eternal father strong to save”.
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Knight’s Fee re-read by Australian fantasy author Garth Nix in 2007! | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
The things you learn with Google alert, which is sometimes a year or two late …! Rosemary Sutcliff’s Knight’s Fee was being read in 2007 around this time by author Garth Nix. Described by the promoters, Jarrold department store, as one of the world’s great fantasy writers”, he will in fact be signing copies of The Violet Keystone in Norwich today!
A full-time writer since 2001, he was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. He has worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, and bookseller. His books include the award-winning fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen; and the cult favourite YA SF novel Shade’s Children.
And Knight’s Fee? In short, the story is set against the violent and turbulent backdrop of Norman England. A young ill-treated boy who is wagered and won in a game of chess between a lord and a minstrel …
Rosemary Sutcliff on writing historical fiction for adults and children | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
Rosemary Sutcliff once said of her writing:
“The themes of my children’s books are mostly quite adult, and in fact the difference between writing for children and for adults is, to me at any rate, only a quite small gear change.”
Source: Townsend, John Rowe. 1971. A Sense of Story. London: Longman p. 201
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 